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  • #uavs

    Avatar-Chic CyberQuad UAV Trades Rotors for Fans

    Cyber Technologies' CyberQuad UAV, implementing four silent, ducted fans in lieu of traditional rotor blades, has already been used to survey damaged oil rigs. Someday it will be used to transport troops in campaigns to exploit interplanetary resources. More »
    12/17/09
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    By Kyle VanHemert
  • #ocean

    The Seaglider, Hunting

    This microphoned submarine glider has been collecting ocean sounds for a few weeks. When it is plucked from the sea in a few more, researchers will use software to parse its audiofiles for rare beaked whale songs. [Wired] More »
    11/13/09
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    By Brian Lam
  • #mainstreamtech

    Martha Stewart Discovers...The Internet?

    Martha Stewart may have 1.5 million followers on her twitter account, but to hear her do her show, it would seem like she only discovered the internet yesterday. More »
    10/02/09
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    By Jason Chen
  • #uavs

    Runaway Drone Shot Out of Sky

    An MQ-9 Reaper drone's fail-safe programming failed and it rushed through Afghanistan's airspace on Sunday. The US Air Force simply responded by sending a manned plane to shoot it down. Turns out this isn't all that uncommon. More »
    09/14/09
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    By Rosa Golijan
  • #uavs

    Pentagon Wants a Flying Bug: This Flapping Nano Bot is Phase One

    Last year, DARPA granted aerospace firm, Aeronvironment, a chunk of change and six-months to demonstrate a bird-sized Nano Air Vehicle (NAV). This video shows the result: the "smallest ever free-flying aircraft to hover and climb with flapping wings." More »
    08/14/09
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    By Danny Allen
  • #uavs

    Need To Fly A Military Drone? Yep, There's An iPhone App For That

    MIT Professor Missy Cummings (a former F-18 Hornet Navy Pilot), and her team of 30 students and undergrads, have successfully demonstrated how an iPhone could be used to control an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle, or UAV. More »
    08/10/09
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    By Danny Allen
  • #weaponry

    Pentagon's New "Suburb Warrior" UAVs Promise to Try to Kill Slightly Fewer Civilians

    The Pentagon's current crop of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are insanely powerful—the "Hellfire" is so named for a reason—but also fairly imprecise, often killing innocent, nearby civilians. The DoD's new UAVs hope to cut down on such casualties. More »
    06/19/09
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    By Dan Nosowitz
  • #polls

    The 10 Most Confusing Terms in Tech Are Mostly Unneeded Anyway

    A UK for-profit firm called The Gadget Helpline surveyed 5,000 people to ferret out the industry's most confusing tech jargon. Luckily, they found most of the top 10 confusing terms are antiquated or proprietary:
    04/27/09
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    By Mark Wilson
  • #green

    Last Year's Model: Get Great Gadgets. And Keep Them

    That's the slogan from Last Year's Model. They believe if you buy gadgets that don't suck, you'll use them longer and not need to buy new stuff all the time—thereby going green. Seems logical. More »
    04/22/09
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    By Adrian Covert
  • #clips

    The Tech and Science Behind Little Red Riding Hood

    Little Red Riding Hood is a great story, but as a gadget nerd I need to have it presented in terms that I can truly understand. In other words—what are the specs? More »
    03/25/09
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    By Sean Fallon
  • #media

    10 Ways Tech Magazines Are Failing Readers

    Mike Elgan, former editor-in-chief for Windows Magazine, writes a great column on how gadgets blogs fail readers. It's solid feedback and tough love. Here's my list on why Tech Magazines are failing readers: More »
    03/25/09
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    By Brian Lam
  • #spydrones

    The Draganflyer X6 UAV Police Edition

    The Draganflyer X6 has been around for a bit now, but only recently have Canadian law enforcers begun using it to serve and protect. Here's the first look at these flying UAVs in uniform. More »
    03/10/09
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    By Adrian Covert
  • #kids

    Why Kids Deserve Crappy Gadgets This Holiday

    This may sound weird, but maybe the children—the future engineers, programmers and techs of our world—deserve crappy gadgets as presents this holiday.
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    By Brian Lam
  • #med

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  • #uavs

    Unmanned Helicopter Flies Low, Dodges Obstacles With 3D Laser Camera

    11/10/08
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  • #uavs

    Air Force Wants Bat-Senses In Micro Spy Drones For "Urban Combat"

    10/30/08
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  • #obama

    Geeks Support Obama

    10/13/08
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  • #uavs

    Military Arming Shadow Drones, Could Give Novice Teen Pilots the Power to Kill

    10/10/08
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  • #weirdos

    People Who Hate Technology Are Total Freaks

    10/06/08
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  • #uavs

    Scientists Plan to Decimate Our Enemies With Dinosaurs

    10/06/08
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  • #raytheon

    The Best View of the KillerBee You Will (Hopefully) Ever Get

    10/02/08
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